Managed DirectX® 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming

Making the Client React

It's clear now that the client will also need to hook the receive data event since you've updated the server to actually send data as well. Add the same hook you used for the server into your client application. The actual event handler for the client will be similar as well. Add the event handler found in Listing 19.7 to your client application.

Listing 19.7. Handling Received Data on the Client

private void OnDataReceive(object sender, ReceiveEventArgs e) { NetworkMessages msg = (NetworkMessages)e.Message.ReceiveData.Read (typeof(NetworkMessages)); string newtext = string.Empty; int playerID = 0; switch (msg) { case NetworkMessages.ChangeName: playerID = (int)e.Message.ReceiveData.Read(typeof(int)); string newname = ...